Fireside with a VC hosting Brian Nugent, Founding General Partnerof Sway Ventures at Professor Romans’ class on VC at Chapman University. Discussing a wide range of topics including:

· Brian’s path to VC from Cisco to startups to venturecapital.

· Career advice for junior and senior folks tobreak into a career in venture capital.

· ESG, women and minorities in venture.

· How venture capital works.

· Each stage of funding from friends and family,pre-seed, late stage seed, series A, B and growth funding rounds andconsiderations.

· Pros and cons of investing at seed vs growth rounds, ownership targets / expectations for dilution, returns, timing and risk / reward profiles.

· How Sway Ventures adds value.

· Tactics for proprietary deal flow, avoiding bidding wars with other VCs, and delivering value to portfolio companies.

· Primary sources of deal flow.

· Common threads of most successful Sway portfolio companies. What are the characteristics of winning companies?

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